Encaustic Open Studio Monday.....

On Monday morning, three women who have been coming regularly to my studio for encaustic classes, joined me in an open studio morning.  After a weekend of hot hot weather here in Northern California, it was a lovely welcome relief to have a cool morning.  The natural air conditioning of the great mother Pacific, brought us relief.  Perfect for working in encaustic.  

I am posting the work that emerged that a.m. 

This piece is one that I worked on with a background I have been struggling with for awhile, finally coming together.  Cheese cloth, collage, photo transfer and sennileir oil pastels over the encaustic.  The image is a from a photograph that I took in Sicily of an altar in the side of one of my relatives houses.     I love it.  It is small but strong.  

Liz continues to work on her family photos in the piece...

with a map of Texas collaged into the encaustic.

This is one of Paula's dragon fly encaustics....

sure looks like a fairy doesn't it.

 I love the colors. 

Another one of Paula's  so rich with beeswax...yumm.

             Peace..

Honey bee was done by   Randy who is a beekeeper. 

The only person who came her is new to the medium... this was her first try at encaustic, 

she is a natural.

Another encaustic by Randy.

I drew with oil pastels on cradled clayboard for this piece, and applied encaustic medium very thickly over it. I love the colors.. This piece however, does not exist anymore. I kept adding colors and working it and it now is something else.  It has become the first image on this post.  NOt sure it is complete either...but I have lost the original....we shall see where the Dream goes.